How-to-play-Flash-Files-in-Delphi


            Title: How to play Flash-Files in Delphi
To make use of SWF files in your Delphi application you should have
the swf plugin installed then follow these steps:
{English}
In the Delphi IDE
- click on "Component", "Import ActiveX Control"
- chose "Shockwave Flash" and click on "install".
Now you have a TShockwaveFlash component in your IDE on the ActiveX tabsheet.
Place the TShockwaveFlash Component onto your form, resize it as needed but
for now do not assign a movie to it.
You will need to register the ocx file if it is not installed on the
target computer. So you should have a resource file with
- the swflash.ocx and your Flash ( *.swf) file.
- Copy swflash.ocx (from i.e. windows\system32\macromed\flash) and your
custom swf file to your project path.
- Create a textfile with a code like this:
SHOCKWAVEFILE RCDATA yourfile.swf
SHOCKWAVEOCX RCDATA swflash.ocx
(Where yourfile.swf is your swf-file)
- Save this file as flash.rc
- Goto Commandline, change to your project dir and enter the line:
"Brcc32 -r flash.rc"
- Now you have your new resource as flash.res files
uses
 ShockwaveFlashObjects_TLB; // will be used automatically
implementation
{$R *.DFM}
{$R flash.res} // your new created resource
{...}
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
var
 SystemDir: array[0..MAX_PATH] of Char;
 SWFDir, AppDir: string;
 Fres: TResourceStream;
 Ffile: TFileStream;
begin
 GetSystemDirectory(@SystemDir, MAX_PATH);
 SWFDir := SystemDir + '\macromed\flash\';
 GetDir(0, AppDir); // Get current directory
 //check whether the sw-flash ocx is already installed
 if FileExists(SWFDir + 'swflash.ocx') = False then
 begin
 //create directories if needed and extract file from resource.
 {$i-} //compiler directive to suppress i/o error messages
 MkDir(SystemDir + '\macromed');
 MKDir(SystemDir + '\macromed\flash');
 {$i+}
 Fres := TResourceStream.Create(0, 'SHOCKWAVEOCX', RT_RCDATA);
 Ffile := TFileStream.Create(SWFDir + 'swflash.ocx', fmCreate);
 Ffile.CopyFrom(Fres, Fres.Size);
 Fres.Free;
 Ffile.Free;
 //register ocx (simple but useful)
 WinExec(PChar('regsvr32 /s ' + SWFDir + 'swflash.ocx'), SW_HIDE);
 end;
 // extract ShockwaveFile from resource to application directory
 Fres := TResourceStream.Create(0, 'SHOCKWAVEFILE', RT_RCDATA);
 Ffile := TFileStream.Create('flashmovie.swf', fmCreate);
 Ffile.CopyFrom(Fres, Fres.Size);
 Fres.Free;
 Ffile.Free;
 //Assign the extracted swf file to your TShockwaveFlash object
 FlashMovie.Movie := AppDir + '\flashmovie.swf';
end;
(*
 If you dont want to have the popup menu displayed on right click
 you may chose menu property of TShockWave to false.
*)
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